| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| a community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent | ethnic group |
| a communist state that spanned Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 | Soviet era |
| the status of a particular nation | nationality |
| supreme power or authority | sovereignty |
| disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods | atheism |
| an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewisssh people in Russia or eastern Europe | program |
| intellectuals or highly educated people as a group, especially when regarded as possessing culture and political influence | intelligentsia |
| officially sanctioned theory and method of literacy composition prevalent in the Soviet Union from 1932 to the mid 1980s | Socialist realism |
| relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition | ethnic |
| plain or obvious; clearly seen or understood | evident |
| is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe | Tatarstan |
| the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Artic Ocean | Lena River |
| a city in and the capital of the Russian Federation | Moscow |
| a salt lake between southeastern Europe and Asia; the largest inland body of water in the world; about 169000 square miles | Caspian Sea |
| an emperor of Russia before 1917 | Czar |
| an agruicultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate | serf |
| a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntary or voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian culture and the Russian language | Russification |
| a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole | Socialism |
| a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917 | Bolshevik |
| a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs | communnism |
| an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication | satelite |
| the state of political hostility that exhisted between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990 | Cold War |
| the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1970 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency | Perestroika |
| the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 | Glasnost |
| buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself | acquire |
| a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual | poliy |
| help, typically of a practical nature | aid |
| a river running through western Russia. It rises about 140 km west of Moscow and flows roughly east through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts, passing through central Moscow | Moskva River |
| a Russian port city on the Baltic Sea. It was the imperial capital for 2 centuries, having been founded in 1703 bt Peter the Great, subject of the city's iconic "Bronze Horseman" statue | St. Petersburg |
| a seaport in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Sea of Japan; eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad | Vladivostok |